Sunday Reading
...in show of protest Diamonds Are Bullshit ReclaimUC: The skills gap is bullshit, Wisconsin edition Financialization killed Sweet Briar The school-to-deportation pipeline "We knew that increased police presence [at the...
Sunday Reading
...a Hundred Years The Unbearable Wrongness of Koushal vs Naz Readings for the 7th Anniversary of the al-Mutanabbi Street Bombing ReclaimUC: "Cops off every campus, and out of every neighbourhood!"...
Beauty Blogosphere 6.1.12
...feminization of The New Aesthetic is a must-read if you're interested in visual culture even in the slightest. "The New Aesthetic is about being looked at by humans and by...
Where State Politics Meets Gender Politics: Chien-Shiung Wu and the Manhattan Project
...initially waged as a separate war. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, this war became part of the Second World War, and the US and Soviet Union came to...
Thunderous Graveyard Affirmations
A Letter on the Uprising in New York
Be Aware: Nick Kristof’s Anti-Politics
...One son, a 12-year-old, refused. “If you kill me, kill me,” he told the soldiers, as his mother remembers it. “But I will not eat a part of my mother.”...
Death Undone
The demand for new relations between death and technology begins with the acknowledgement of Black life
Hot or Not?
...foolish enough to believe that a ‘natural’ disaster is not politically inflected: Hurricane Sandy will kill many times more people in Haiti than everywhere else combined, despite barely touching the...
After the Screening: This is Not a Film (Podcast)
...director Patrick Harrison discuss the film as they walk through the streets of New York immediately upon leaving the screening. [audio:http://thenewinquiry.com/app/uploads/2012/06/ThisIsNotAMoviePodcast.mp3|titles=After the Screening: This is Not a Film] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpHGu8HLK6s...
A Message from the Trayvon Martin Organizing Committee
...and legal fund. Our comrades have had our backs. It's time to have theirs. Donate here. Sincerely, Members of the Trayvon Martin Organizing Committee - NYC https://www.facebook.com/tmocnyc @TMOCNYC [email protected]...
Freedom Industry
...American Water Company has advised residents of nine state counties not to drink or bathe in their running water. "I can’t tell you that the water is unsafe, but I...
Women Tinkerers: Gender and Labor in Jellyfish Husbandry
...Japan, induced spawning in jellyfish by shifting water temperature. Spangenberg (1965), managed to maintain her jellyfish for over three years at the University of Arkansas medical laboratory by keeping them...
African Poetry: Hope Wabuke
...in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound; I grant I never...
Hollywood's Drug War
...where their loved ones are buried. Boullosa and Wallace found similar heroism in Mexico. In 2014 a group of student teachers from Ayotzinapa commandeered a bus in a desperate attempt...
Homeward Bound
...still had to feed and house myself. To be processed through the carceral system is to be simultaneously exposed to the full power of American institutions and the terrifying reality...
Sunday Reading
...Before the Quake ReclaimUC: "You may accuse us of losing faith in the university; it never had faith in us." The work of humanities Who's afraid of Occupy? The John...